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5461) A Completed Life
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This book presents Dr Syme's views on the plight of people with dementia, and his suggestion for further legislative change. The book's title reflects a life that has been long, and where all that was possible has been achieved-and so is in a sense 'complete'. There follows consideration of the problems that may follow, and what may be a reasonable response.
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Una colección de reportajes periodísticos sobre la muerte en Bolivia
Raúl Mercado murió el mismo día en que decidió estrenar la camisa que reservaba para su funeral. No fue el único detalle que parecía planeado. Sesenta años antes, en una parcela familiar próxima a Suri, plantó un nogal para que un carpintero construyera el ataúd en el que quería ser enterrado. El 9 de agosto de 2002, en las inmediaciones de la terminal de autobuses...
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A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go.
In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called "wakas," each poem is shaped by...
5465) Wanted!
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Falsely accused of her father's murder, Alice is on the run for her life. Alice is at home painting her fingernails and ruminating on her parent's divorce when she receives an oddly desperate-sounding phone call from her father. He instructs her to drop what she's doing, take his car, and bring two computer disks to him at their favorite ice cream shack. Alice can't believe her father wants her to take his precious Corvette, and she's not supposed...
5466) The One After the One
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How do you know if they're The One (after The One)?
Charley's in a new relationship with perfect boyfriend, Ricky, slowly moving on from the death of her husband. But having only ever been in love once before, how can she know when it's the real deal? Ricky is perfect, but she's not convinced he's perfect for her…
Taking the bull by the horns after separating from her cheating husband, Pam has signed up for online dating. And it's exhausting....
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Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered. I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed. On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are...
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" I'm Sorry, It's Pancreatic Cancer" Is complete at 60,000 words. My memoir follows the fourteen-month journey I took with Dava my wife of 40-years, and our four daughters from the moment we heard the diagnosis through how we coped with losing her. My words in telling our story are interspersed with my wife's journal entries as well as a few added journal entries from my daughter's journal and mine. Combined, these journal entries give powerful meaning...
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What do you do when a person you love starts forgetting dates, missing reminders, or not even recognizing who you are? And that person is your own beloved mother? You take a deep breath and begin seeking those moments of memory to keep her the way she was while loving her for the way she is.
This is what Rene Terry Mucci did after her spirited, strong, and independent Moma was diagnosed with dementia. I'll Sing Again Tomorrow is the memoir of a daughter...
5470) Mom Died Last Night, My Shared Death Experience, a Memoir of Death, Grief, and Afterlife Communicati
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After my mother passed away, I felt compelled to write. What I thought would be a personal chronicle in order to process my mother's death and my own grief quickly turned into more. Not only was I channeling my grief and experience into words, but I knew without a doubt in the moments, hours, and days that followed, my mother was communicating with me. A door had been opened for her to communicate and let me know she was still with me. We had been...
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A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incident
In February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American history. The perpetrator-a well-respected family man and a former hometown football star-had managed to conceal the horror for five years.
Among the bodies found at the Tri-State Crematory was that of Brent Hendricks's...
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The historical sabotage bombing of US Air Lines Flight 629 outside Denver, Colorado, left 44 people instantly killed and a nation stunned. How does one family pick up their shattered lives and move on? Can they move beyond their tragedy?
"How does anyone?" asks author Marian Poeppelmeyer as she provides firsthand insight from one who has lived it.
On the night of November 1, 1955, Marty Hobgood found herself instantly widowed with a toddler and a...
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Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry Rosie" Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs, and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of Rosie Rollins is based on World War I veteran Harry "Rosie" Rowbottom, who was wounded at Vimy Ridge. Fennario taped an interview with Rowbottom in 1979...
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ARE YOU EXPERIENCING STRESS DUE TO A DIAGNOSIS THAT LOOKS DISMAL,FRUSTRATION WITH A LIFE THAT FEELS FRAGILE,SORROW OVER A STORY THAT SEEMS UNCERTAIN?HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TRUST GOD WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE A SINGLE THING IN FRONT OF YOU?Amy Beth Pederson learned the hard way that the only way to work through stress, frustration, and sorrow is to trust that God is guiding and giving us answers even when we don't feel it, even when we can't...
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Have you loved and lost before, yet struggled with how to recover and move forward? Are you looking for inspiration to give you strength to persevere? Have you faced the inevitable eternal rest of a parent, struggled with how to say good-bye? Have you questioned your faith and let fear take over in times of loss?
In The Gift of Goodbye, Rebecca Whitehead Munn relates how she drew strength from her faith and optimism as everything she knew to be...
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Did you know that grief can affect both your mind and your body? In this helpful and healing guide, the director of the Children's Grief Connection offers practices to help you deal with the physical aspects of grief and loss. If you lose someone you love or are close to, you probably feel a number of emotions-sadness, anger, loneliness, or fear. These are all normal feelings, and it's important that you have someone to talk to, whether it's a family...
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Don't miss this companion novella to the enthralling Goddess Test series, perfect for fans of the Covenant, Star-crossed and Mortal Instruments series, originally published in 2012 as part of The Goddess Legacy anthology!
For millennia, we've caught only glimpses of the lives and loves of the gods and goddesses on Olympus. Now Aimée Carter pulls back the curtain on how they became the powerful, petty, loving and dangerous immortals that Kate Winters...
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From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.
This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind, and everything your heart deserves. You fit inside these words.
5479) Crane Maiden
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“Crane Maiden” is a love story of people and birds. A tale of loss and reunion, a dream. a dance of ancient birds believed to live for a thousand years.
5480) The Yin and Yang of Loss
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THE YIN AND YANG OF LOSS is a successor's tribute to two people, unique to their bonds of friendship and life circumstances. This eponymous work succeeds an anthologized piece that first debuted in Red Skirt, Blue Jeans: True Stories from the Berkeley Public Library Memoir Writers and includes the following:* images/illustrations/photographs to accompany the text* foot, hand and ear treatment for leisure and reflection* questions for discussion and...
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